Choose a few books that you're interested in and search a site like amazon.com to find more information and user reviews on the book. Many of the book entries on Amazon's site allow you to read the first few pages or even the first chapter of the book.
Below you'll find links to the amazon.com pages for some of the books. Check out the links for more information on the book as well as customer reviews to get a better idea of which you'd like to choose for the project.
ISearch Resources
Also, see Grammar and Writing Resources for MLA help when you get into the paper process.
Time Magazine
Outliers (Gladwell) excerpt
Tipping Point (Gladwell)
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Krakauer)
Freakonomics (Levitt and Dubner)
Half the Sky
Some more novel summaries:
Below you'll find links to the amazon.com pages for some of the books. Check out the links for more information on the book as well as customer reviews to get a better idea of which you'd like to choose for the project.
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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The Believing Brain...How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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The Psychopath Test
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The Mole People
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction
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Or, if you have another book you'd like to read, bring in the Amazon page and a rough idea of what you'd intend to research with relation to the book.